Laureates
| Citation Laureates | Nationality | Motivations | Institute | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 [2] | ||||
 2010 | Andre Geim (born 1958) |  Netherlands  United Kingdom | "for their discovery and analysis of graphene." | University of Manchester |
| 2010 | Konstantin Novoselov (born 1974) |  Russia United Kingdom | ||
| Vera Rubin (1928–2016) |  United States | "for her pioneering research indicating the existence of dark matter in the universe." | Carnegie Institution of Washington | |
| 2020 | Roger Penrose (born 1931) | United Kingdom | "for their related discoveries of, Penrose-tilings and quasicrystals, respectively." | University of Oxford |
| 2011 | Dan Shechtman (born 1941) |  Israel | ||
| 2009 [3] | ||||
| Yakir Aharonov (born 1932) | Israel | "for their discovery of the Aharonov–Bohm effect and the related Berry phase, respectively." | ||
| Michael Berry (born 1941) | United Kingdom | University of Bristol | ||
| Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain (born 1965) |  Spain | "for their pioneering research on quantum optics and quantum computing." | Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics | |
| Peter Zoller (born 1952) |  Austria | |||
| John Pendry (born 1943) | United Kingdom | "for their prediction and discovery of negative refraction." | Imperial College London | |
| Sheldon Schultz (1933–2017) | United States | University of California, San Diego | ||
| David R. Smith (born 1964) | United States | Duke University | ||
| 2010 [4] | ||||
| Charles L. Bennett (born 1956) | United States | "for discoveries deriving from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), including the age of the universe, its topography, and its composition." | ||
| Lyman Page (born 1957) | United States | Princeton University | ||
| David Spergel (born 1961) | United States | |||
| Thomas Ebbesen (born 1954) |  Norway | "for observation and explanation of the transmission of light through subwavelength holes, which ignited the field of surface plasmon photonics." |
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| 2011 | Saul Perlmutter (born 1959) | United States | "for discoveries of the accelerating rate of the expansion of the universe, and its implications for the existence of dark energy." | |
| 2011 | Adam Riess (born 1969) | United States | ||
| 2011 | Brian Schmidt (born 1967) | United States | Australian National University | |
| 2011 [5] | ||||
| 2022 | Alain Aspect (born 1947) |  France | "for their tests of Bell inequalities and research on quantum entanglement." | |
| 2022 | John Clauser (born 1942) | United States | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
| 2022 | Anton Zeilinger (born 1945) | Austria | ||
| Sajeev John (born 1957) |  India  Canada | "for their invention and development of photonic band gap materials." | University of Toronto | |
| Eli Yablonovitch (born 1946) | United States | University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Hideo Ohno (born 1954) |  Japan | "for contributions to ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors." | ||
| 2012 [6] | ||||
| Charles H. Bennett (born 1943) | United States | "for their pioneering description of a protocol for quantum teleportation, which has since been experimentally verified." | IBM Research | |
| Gilles Brassard (born 1955) | Canada | University of Montreal | ||
| William Wootters (born 1951) | United States | Williams College | ||
| Leigh Canham (born 1958) | United Kingdom | "for discovery of photoluminescence in porous silicon." | University of Birmingham | |
| Stephen E. Harris (born 1936) | United States | "for the experimental demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency (Harris) and of 'slow light' (Harris and Hau)." | Stanford University | |
| Lene Hau (born 1959) |  Denmark | Harvard University | ||
| 2013 [7] | ||||
| 2013 | François Englert (born 1932) |  Belgium | "for their prediction of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson." | |
| 2013 | Peter W. Higgs (1929-2024) | United Kingdom | University of Edinburgh | |
| Hideo Hosono (born 1953) | Japan | "for his discovery of iron-based superconductors." | Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
| Geoffrey Marcy (born 1954) | United States | "for their discoveries of extrasolar planets." | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 2019 | Michel Mayor (born 1942) |  Switzerland | University of Geneva | |
| 2019 | Didier P. Queloz (born 1966) | Switzerland | ||
| 2014 [8] | ||||
| Charles L. Kane (born 1963) | United States | "for theoretical and experimental research on the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators." | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Laurens W. Molenkamp (born 1956) | Netherlands | University of Würzburg | ||
| Shoucheng Zhang (1963–2018) |  China United States | Stanford University | ||
| James F. Scott (1942–2020) | United States | "for their pioneering research on ferroelectric memory devices (Scott) and new multiferroic materials (Ramesh and Tokura)." | University of Cambridge | |
| Ramamoorthy Ramesh (born 1960) | India United States | University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Yoshinori Tokura [lower-alpha 1] (born 1954) | Japan | University of Tokyo | ||
| Peidong Yang (born 1971) | China United States | "for his contributions to nanowire photonics including the creation of first nanowire nanolaser." | ||
| 2015 [9] | ||||
| Paul Corkum (born 1943) | Canada | "for contributions to the development of attosecond physics." | University of Ottawa | |
| 2023 | Ferenc Krausz (born 1962) |  Hungary | ||
| Deborah S. Jin (1968–2016) | United States | "for pioneering research on atomic gases at ultra-cold temperatures and the creation of the first fermionic condensate." | University of Colorado | |
| Zhong Lin Wang (born 1961) | China United States | "for his invention of piezotronic and piezophototronic nanogenerators." | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| 2016 [10] | ||||
| Marvin L. Cohen (born 1935) | United States | "for theoretical studies of solid materials, prediction of their properties, and especially for the empirical pseudopotential method." | ||
| Ronald Drever (1931–2017) | United Kingdom | "for the development of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) that made possible the detection of gravitational waves." | California Institute of Technology | |
| 2017 | Kip Thorne (born 1940) | United States | ||
| 2017 | Rainer Weiss (born 1932) | United States | ||
| Celso Grebogi (born 1947) |  Brazil | "for their description of a control theory of chaotic systems, the OGY method." | University of Aberdeen | |
| Edward Ott (born 1941) | United States | University of Maryland | ||
| James A. Yorke (born 1941) | United States | |||
| 2017 [11] | ||||
| Phaedon Avouris (born 1945) |  Greece | "for seminal contributions to carbon-based electronics." | Thomas J. Watson Research Center | |
| Cornelis Dekker (born 1949) | Netherlands | Delft University of Technology | ||
| Paul McEuen (born 1963) | United States | Cornell University | ||
| Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019) | United States | "for pioneering discoveries in nonlinear and chaotic physical systems and for identification of the Feigenbaum constants." | Rockefeller University | |
| Rashid Sunyaev (born 1943) | Russia  Germany | "for his profound contributions to our understanding of the universe, including its origins, galactic formation processes, disk accretion of black holes, and many other cosmological phenomena." | ||
| 2018 [12] | ||||
| David Awschalom (born 1956) | United States | "for observation of the spin Hall effect in semiconductors." | University of Chicago | |
| Arthur Gossard (1935–2022) | United States | University of California, Santa Barbara | ||
| Sandra Faber (born 1944) | United States | "for pioneering methods to determine the age, size and distance of galaxies and for other contributions to cosmology." | University of California, Santa Cruz | |
| Yury Gogotsi (born 1961) |  Ukraine | "for discoveries advancing the understanding and development of carbon-based materials, including for capacitive energy storage and understanding the mechanisms of operation of supercapacitors." | Drexel Nanomaterials Institute | |
| Rodney S. Ruoff (born 1957) | United States | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology | ||
| Patrice Simon (born 1969) | France | Université Paul Sabatier | ||
| 2019 [13] | ||||
| Artur Ekert (born 1961) |  Poland United Kingdom | "for contributions to quantum computation and quantum cryptography." | ||
| Tony Heinz (born 1956) | United States | "for pioneering research on optical and electronic properties of two-dimensional nanomaterials." | ||
| John Perdew (born 1943) | United States | "for advances in density functional theory of electronic structure, revealing 'nature's glue'." | Temple University | |
| 2020 [14] | ||||
| Thomas L. Carroll | United States | "for research in nonlinear dynamics including synchronization of chaotic systems." | United States Naval Research Laboratory | |
| Louis M. Pecora (born 1947) | United States | |||
| Hongjie Dai (born 1966) | China United States | "for fabrication and novel applications of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes." | Stanford University | |
| Alex Zettl (born 1956) | United States | |||
| Carlos Frenk (born 1951) |  Mexico United Kingdom | "for their fundamental studies of galaxy formation and evolution, cosmic structure, and dark matter halos." | Durham University | |
| Julio Navarro (born 1962) |  Argentina Canada | University of Victoria | ||
| Simon White (born 1951) | United Kingdom | Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics | ||
| 2021 [15] | ||||
| Alexei Kitaev (born 1963) | Russia United States | "for topological quantum computation, in which quantum information is encoded and protected using topological properties of many-body systems." | California Institute of Technology | |
| Mark Newman | United Kingdom United States | "for wide-ranging research on network systems including work on community structure and random graph models." | University of Michigan | |
| 2021 | Giorgio Parisi (born 1948) |  Italy | "for ground-breaking discoveries in quantum chromodynamics and in the study of complex disordered systems." | Sapienza University of Rome |
| 2022 [16] | ||||
| Immanuel Bloch (born 1972) | Germany | "for ground-breaking research on quantum many-body systems using ultra-cold atomic and molecular gases, opening the way to quantum simulations of 'artificial solids'." | ||
| Stephen Quake (born 1969) | United States | "for contributions to the physics of fluid phenomena on the nanoliter scale." | ||
| Takashi Taniguchi (born 1959) | Japan | "for fabrication of high-quality hexagonal boron nitride crystals, the availability of which enabled a revolution in research on the electronic behavior of two-dimensional materials." | National Institute for Materials Science | |
| Kenji Watanabe (born 1969) | Japan | |||
| 2023 [17] | ||||
| Sharon C. Glotzer | United States | "for demonstrating the role of entropy in the self-assembly of matter and for introducing strategies to control the assembly process to engineer new materials." | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | |
| Federico Capasso (born 1949) | Italy United States | "for pioneering research on photonics, plasmonics, and metasurfaces, as well as contributions to the invention of and improvements on the quantum cascade laser." | Harvard University, Cambridge | |
| Stuart S. P. Parkin (born 1955) | United Kingdom Germany | "for research on spintronics and specifically the development of racetrack memory for increased data storage density." | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | |
| 2024 [18] | ||||
| Rafi Bistritzer (born 1974) | Israel | "for pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to the physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene and related moiré quantum devices." | Tel Aviv University | |
| Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (born 1976) | Spain | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Allan H. MacDonald (born 1951) | Canada United States | University of Texas at Austin | ||
| David Deutsch (born 1953) | United Kingdom | "for revolutionary contributions to quantum algorithms and computing." | Oxford University | |
| Peter Shor (born 1959) | United States | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Christoph Gerber (born 1942) | Switzerland | "for invention and application of atomic force microscopy." | University of Basel | |
